E-MAIL PROTOCOLS (SMTP, POP, IMAP)

Question 1

What protocol is used to send e-mails?

Answer 1

SMTP

Question 2

What does SMTP stand for?

Answer 2

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Question 3

What are message access protocols?

Answer 3

POP or IMAP

Question 4

What does POP mean?

Answer 4

Post Office Protocol

Question 5

What does IMAP mean?

Answer 5

Internet Message Access Protocol

Question 6

How does POP operate?

Answer 6

It has 2 modes:
Download-and-delete
Download-and-keep

Question 7

How does IMAP operate?

Answer 7

When retrieving e-mails from the server, IMAP keeps a copy of those emails within the server. This allows the user to access the data using multiple devices.

Question 8

Software applications that act on behalf of users to interact with web services and networked applications.

Answer 8

User Agents

Question 9

Type of protocol that sends data from client to server, or server to server.

Answer 9

Push protocols

Question 10

Type of protocol that takes data from server to client.

Answer 10

Pull protocols